If you think humans are going to delegate reasoning and responsibility to something, shouldn’t you also be concerned about the sorts of recommendations that thing is going to make?

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paxys 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If you found out the pentagon was using a magic 8 ball to make important war decisions what would you want to fix - our military leadership or the inner workings of the toy?

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hn_go_brrrrr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

One of those sounds a lot easier than the other. The magic 8 ball toy company would also probably be pretty incentivized to not die in a nuclear holocaust.

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loire280 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Unless you're suggesting the toy company secretly rigs the magic 8 ball to never recommend nuclear war, I'll take my chances with the organizational changes.

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foobar10000 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That is indeed what I think the gp is suggesting I feel. And why not?

	▲	grey-area 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because if your leadership is stupid enough to trust the 8 ball they should not be in charge??!